A computer programmer had been missing from work for over a week when finally
someone noticed and decided to check up on him.
They went round to his flat and had to break down the door. They found him dead in the shower with the water still running, There was an empty bottle of shampoo next to his body. Apparently he'd been washing his hair.
The instructions on the bottle said:
* Wet hair
* Apply shampoo
* Wait 2 minutes
* Rinse
* Repeat
There is a lot of 'heavy' news today, so I thought a little light heartedness was called for. I was reading in the news this morning about Teddy Bears!
The writer was discussing the obituary of Sir Robert Clark. At the age of 2 he was given a bear, that he named Falla. It stayed with him throughout his life. Even when he was in the military, and was parachuted behind enemy lines, Falla was with him, tucked into his battledress. It even stayed with him when he was a prisoner of war. After the war he became a government advisor, but never lost his ardour for Teddy Bears, and became a collector of them, amassing over 300.
I wonder how many men today would be brave enough to admit they even liked Teddy Bears, let alone collected them?
But do we all know how the Teddy Bear came into being?
The story is, that US President Theodore (Teddy), Roosevelt was out hunting American Black Bears. Some friends caught one, tied it to a tree and told the president to shoot it. He refused because it was so unsporting.
This story got out, it got turned into a cartoon that made all the newspapers, and was seen by Morris Michtom. Morris had a day job, but make extra money at night by making stuffed animals along with his wife.
Having gained the Presidents permission, he made a bear, which he sold as 'Teddy's Bear'. It was an immediate hit. Over the years the name changed slightly and became Teddy Bear
Trainer Talk
Well, here is the finished pile of notes for next week. It doesn't look much here, but each is about 350 pages. It will take 4 x 1-week sessions to get through.
Other tasks for today are to try and finish my application to become an examinations centre for the Process Awards Authority, and to buy a company! More about that later.
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